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ORDINANCE REGARDING PUNISHMENT FOR CRIMES COMMITTED WITHIN THE CITY OF JONESBORO
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Whoever shall be guilty of a repeated and willful violation of any of the Ordinance of this City, and shall refuse or neglect to pay the fine imposed and cost of prosecution, by like order of process, he shall upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned and kept in confinement for any term not exceeding thirty days.
If any person assault another with a deadly weapon, instrument or other thing with intent to inflict upon the person of another a bodily injury, where no considerable provocation appears, or where the circumstances of the assault show an abandoned and malignant disposition, he shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Fifty Dollars nor exceeding One Thousand Dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding one year.
If any person shall shoot at any other person with intent to kill or wound such person, although he may miss, or fail to hit the person aimed at, he shall be guilty of an attempt to maim and upon conviction, shall be fined, not exceeding Three Thousand Dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding seven years.
If any person of his malice attempt to shoot or do some bodily injury to some particular individual, and in attempting to do so shall shoot or injure some third person, against whom the offender has no evil design, he shall be held and adjudged to be guilty in the same many as if the injury had fallen on the person intended.
An assault with intent to maim shall subject the offender, on conviction thereof, to a fine not less than One Hundred Dollars, and to be imprisoned not exceeding one year.
An assault with intent to commit larceny shall subject the offender on conviction thereof, to a fine not less than One Hundred or more than One Thousand Dollars and to be imprisoned not exceeding one year.
Passed and adopted this June 21, 1892.